NEW DATE: Critical Social Justice: Creating Brave Spaces
Your Powerful Online Voice: Social Media For Social Change
Location
On Campus : University Center: Ballroom
Date & Time
February 18, 2015, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description
Due to the looming snow storm and the flexibility of our keynote speaker, the Critical Social Justice Keynote event has been postponed until Wednesday, February 18th at 7:30pm.
Franchesca Ramsey’s keynote lecture for CSJ 2015 will be about using the the internet as a platform for social justice activism.
A Q&A session and reception will also follow the lecture. Doors open at 7pm. Event sponsored by: Women’s Center and Mosaic Center. For more details, click here.
Franchesca Ramsey, vlogger
Best known for her viral parody video of racial microaggressions, Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls, comedian and vlogger Franchesca Ramsey discusses her approach to harnessing the power of social media across multiple platforms in order to engage in meaningful dialogues about social justice. Inspired by her interactions with other prominent social justice bloggers, Ramsey critiques the toxic “call-out culture” that pervades many social justice communities and explores alternative approaches to demanding accountability in online spaces. Her poignant video, How Slut Shaming Becomes Victim Blaming, which centers on her analysis of rape culture and its impact on the literal and metaphorical safe space for women and sexual assault survivors, provides the touch point for examining the role of vulnerability and raw affect in social justice work. Ramsey further explores the possibilities and challenges presented by using new media to talk about contentious issues like race, feminism, and body politics.